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War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

A life in writing - Michael Morpurgo
Writing 'War Horse' by Michael Morpurgo 17 April 2008 was the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Merkem, or the Battle of the Kippe. The Belgian army retook the hamlet of de Kippe. It was a significant advance, much celebrated by the Belgians. To mark the occasion of this first Belgian victory, my grandfather Emile Cammaerts, a great poet and Belgian patriot, named my mother, who was born on April 18th 1918, Kippe. It is the name by which I’ve known her all my life. This is the first of many diverse influences that contributed to my writing War Horse many decades later.

World War I

The Use of Horse Power During WW1 Between 1914 and 1918 the USA alone sent almost one million horses overseas
while another 182,000 accompanied American forces. Only 200 were returned.
60,000 were killed outright during fighting.
Perhaps six million horses served in the First World War. A high proportion died
from war-related causes.

National Theatre - Production

War Horse - Introduction Pack Contains notes about the production history, WW! timeline, synopsis, production timeline and characters.
War Horse Study Guide A teacher resource guide for the U.S. premiere of War Horse the spectacular production from London’s National Theatre in collaboration with South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company.
Extracts from Mervyn Millar's book 'The Horse's Mouth' “The book is not easy to turn into a play,” says [Adrian] Kohler [Handspring Puppets], “because it’s a journey, the horse is meeting many different characters, and as the horse doesn’t speak, how do you sustain the drama through the piece?” As National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner warns, “The toughest thing that they’ve got to achieve is a theatre structure that is compelling, tense and involving from beginning to end
Putting the production together Putting the production together
by Polly Findlay, Staff Director on the original
2007 production of War Horse
The novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
has been long established as a children’s
classic: featuring huge numbers of
characters, crossing an astonishing number
of locations, taking place over a period of six
years, set in the last century and narrated by
a horse to boot, it seemed like an impossible
story to try and render dramatically. It wasn’t
until Basil and Adrian (the Handspring team)
came up with the first, astonishing design
proposals for the Joey puppet that excitement
about the project really started to run through
the theatre: it seemed like the impossible
might be about to happen
War Horse on stage, the journey so far War Horse on stage, the journey so far
Interviews with the creative team by Heather Neill, Arts Journalist and Theatre Critic (2011)

Handspring

Handspring Puppet Company

Interactives

Puppetry

The Genius Puppetry Behind War Horse

War Horse Puppet

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Harper, J 2008, War Horse at the Oliver Theatre London, Lighting & Sound, pdf, accessed 27 August 2018, <http://www.theatrecrafts.com/archive/documents/lsi_jan2008_warhorse.pdf>.

National Theatre Discover 2011, Handspring: Being a Puppeteer, 13 June, accessed 27 August 2018, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslFjNZZZGQ>.

World War I 2018. Britannica School. Retrieved 27 August 2018, from https://school.eb.com.au/levels/high/article/World-War-I/110198#

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